Josef Mengele
-Medical Officer at Aushwitz
-looked over Gypsy camp
-Did previous research about utilizing twins
-studied both identical and fraternal twins to discover origins of genetic diseases
-Was very interested in heteroenromia: two irises that consist different colors. Collected from the victims eyes.
-During Mengele's twin experiment, he would line up victims in order to identify twins. Mothers would decipher whether or not to surrender their children or bring them into gas chambers.
-Twins studied called "Mengeles' Children"
-The twins were evaluated much differently than the prisoners not partaking in experiment, such as: keeping hair and keeping clothes.
-Besides the different treatment they had to be tattooed and go through numerous questions about their background information
-Many Experimentation's included:
-Replicating blue eyes by injecting chemicals into the eyes causing blindness, severe pain, and infection
-Their was great amounts of blood transfusions to one twin to the other, purposely infecting one twin with a disease (Tuberculosis and Typhus). If one died from the disease they would immediately kill the other one to examine both bodies from different affects of the disease.
-Amputations, Castration, and organ removal were one of the more common surgeries performed by Mengele
-looked over Gypsy camp
-Did previous research about utilizing twins
-studied both identical and fraternal twins to discover origins of genetic diseases
-Was very interested in heteroenromia: two irises that consist different colors. Collected from the victims eyes.
-During Mengele's twin experiment, he would line up victims in order to identify twins. Mothers would decipher whether or not to surrender their children or bring them into gas chambers.
-Twins studied called "Mengeles' Children"
-The twins were evaluated much differently than the prisoners not partaking in experiment, such as: keeping hair and keeping clothes.
-Besides the different treatment they had to be tattooed and go through numerous questions about their background information
-Many Experimentation's included:
-Replicating blue eyes by injecting chemicals into the eyes causing blindness, severe pain, and infection
-Their was great amounts of blood transfusions to one twin to the other, purposely infecting one twin with a disease (Tuberculosis and Typhus). If one died from the disease they would immediately kill the other one to examine both bodies from different affects of the disease.
-Amputations, Castration, and organ removal were one of the more common surgeries performed by Mengele
Herta Oberheuser
-killed mainly children
-injections of evipan and oil
-would remove limbs and important organs from healthy children she just killed
-victims after being injected die 3-5 minutes later
-conducted medical experiments by grinding sawdust, glass, rusty nails,and dirt into open wounds of victims
-this medical experiment was used to figure out ways to heal German soldiers wounds from the war
Carl Clauberg
-gynecological researcher
-known in Germany for Being one of the top doctors, very accomplished
-goal with the experiments to find a economical way to sterilize females
-injections with acid liquid in uterus caused pain stomach spasms, bleeding, and inflamed ovaries
-700 women sterilized
-death occurred, but others killed for further research of bodies to do autopsies
Other Experiments
- Freezing experiment
- purpose: discover ways to cure and avoid hypothermia
- victims endure being in ice water for 5 hours
- reason Nazi's had this experiment because German soldiers in Russia becoming sick from freezing weather
- believed in Russians genetics were unique, being able to live in such cold climates
2. Malaria experiment
- wanted to find a way to cure malaria
- would test various drugs on victims after being infected by mosquitoes
- about half did not survive
3, Sea Water experiment
- how to make sea water okay to consume
- victims only given sea water to drink with no food
- became dehydrated resulted to them licking mopped floor for some type of edible water
4. Mustard Gas experiment
- victims exposed to muster gas resulting in burns
- test victims on various ways how to treat the wounds